But when the calls start pouring in from listeners, the station manager urges Reeve to continue doing “Janies.” Basking in the popularity he’s gaining as a radio personality, Reeve continues to share bits and pieces of Janie’s story, as if it were an ongoing mystery. He regrets betraying her confidence and privacy by sharing her story. Then he thinks about his beloved Janie, and all of her secrets begin to flow out of his mouth.

He sits in front of the microphone, trying to muster up a topic. When he gets a shot as a DJ on the college radio station, he desperately wants to prove he’s good at something. A rich kid without the academic prowess of his siblings, Reeve has always felt he disappointed his parents. Reeve tried to be supportive, though he always wished for less talking and more physical intimacy with Janie. Janie met her biological family and even lived with them for a while before returning to the people she’d always called Mom and Dad. When the milk carton surfaced, the truth came out about Hannah having kidnapped Janie. When Hannah left and rejoined the cult, her parents raised Janie as their own, thinking she was their granddaughter. Their daughter, Hannah, who had joined a cult and run away, returned one day with a child she claimed was hers. She learned her parents were actually not her blood relatives, as did they.

She saw a picture of a young child on a milk carton and recognized it as her own face. Over the past few years, Reeve Shields’ neighbor-turned-girlfriend, Janie, has experienced some strange, life-altering trials.

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